Felix Schelling famous quotes

True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius.
-- Felix Schelling

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Man becomes greater in proportion to knowing himself and his faculties. Let him become conscious of what he is and he will soon also learn what he should be.
-- Felix Schelling

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Architecture is petrified music.
-- Felix Schelling

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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

All I have learned, I learned from books.

If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.

Genius is always more suggestive than expressive.

Genius can never despise labour.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

There is no such thing as unfortunate genius; if a man or woman is fit for work, God appoints the field.

Genius is a will-o'-the-wisp if it lacks a solid foundation of perseverence and fanatical tenacity. This is the most important thing in all of human life...